Posted on 03/18/2008 1:17:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Topeka — Agreements with Mexico and Canada are setting the stage for construction of a huge highway that will gobble up Kansans’ property and jeopardize U.S. security, representatives from a wide range of groups said Monday.
“Through incrementalism, apathy and inattention, our national sovereignty is being sacrificed on a cross of greed, socialism and globalism,” said state Rep. Judy Morrison, R-Shawnee.
Morrison has introduced House Concurrent Resolution 5033 urging Congress to withdraw from further participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement and Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
At a hearing before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, truckers, labor officials and lawmakers and advocates from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas urged approval of the resolution.
Committee Chairman Arlen Siegfreid, R-Olathe, said he didn’t know if the committee could comprehend all the information submitted on the subject and work on the measure within the last three weeks of the legislative session.
“I think I’ve got a little reading to do. I have not made a decision yet, but it’s getting very short,” Siegfreid said.
Owen de Long, a political consultant from Merriam, said plans are in the works to build a NAFTA superhighway that will be one-quarter of a mile wide to transport Asian goods throughout the United States that are off-loaded at Mexican ports.
De Long said it will be impossible to police the huge amount of cargo containers. “That’s how terrorists will arrive in Kansas City,” he said.
Some officials have repeatedly denied the existence of plans to build the highway.
But David and Linda Stall, founders of CorridorWatch in Texas, testified that because of NAFTA, Texas is in the middle of considering a Trans-Texas Corridor that has been criticized by landowners.
Can you imagine what the forum responses on this website would have been when we were building the railroads?
Don’t stop there—we need a mandated wage.
Require that the companies that move production to third world nation still observe OSHA and pollution controls that US manufacturers have to observe. That might keep some of the jobs here.
I don’t like it either. BOHICA.
That’s an interesting proposition. I can only imagine the boom to Bermuda as more companies locate their headquarters there.
Good lord, it would have gone into meltdown.
It still might if they ever realized how much land was granted to the railroad companies for laying a new track.
This 1/4 mile “land grab” is miniscule in comparison.
A lot have disappeared due to automation, and even if you place trade barriers that raise prices for Americans, the end result is likely going to be a lot more automation and few good paying manufacturing jobs.
The time where it is cost effective to pay high wages to low skilled labor is past. It's still practical to use cheap foreign labor if it is cheap enough, but it's cheaper to automate than to pay line workers middle class and upper middle class wages.
The Democrats are very good at exploiting those that don't want to accept reality. They're good at lying to people saying their problems are all someone else's fault and that you need to vote for them so they can fix those problems.
The Democrats have no solutions to the loss of manufacturing jobs other than try and force companies to do things inefficiently to give jobs to people, which is what the unions have been trying to do.
The Trans-Texas Corridor is to further the North American Free Trade Agreement and Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. It can only expand our economy which is of course a good thing for the World citizens and the UN.
Our national sovereignty doesn’t hold a candle to the value of international socialism and globalism.
If they at least required OSHA and a level playing field when it comes to the pollution controls that US manufacturers are forced to comply with, I wouldn’t be complaining nearly as much.
For those who didn’t pay attention in history class, the railroad companies got a swath of land extending 20 miles on EACH SIDE of the railroad track as an incentive to build a transcontinental railway.
And that wasn’t the only incentive, but since we’re focused on land, I’ll leave it at that.
You do know that's WIDTH not LENGTH?
DUH.
Hmm, what is that? 20.5 million jobs created since 1993?
That’s just about the same number of illegals here.
You might want to double check your math.
That’s just about the same number of illegals here.
Imagine the jobs we'd create if we built a wall. And sent them back. Let's get started.
I'm guessing it didn't intrude on too many people's livelihood? Or isolate them from their land? Or ruin a small town's economy? Or pull tax dollars from those same communities?
Our corporate tax rate is the second highest in the industrialized world. If you want some of those jobs to come back, then lobby congress to lower the tax rate to something more human, like 10% (instead of 35%).
This may come as a surprise to you, but a transportation corridor spurs new development along its route, creates new jobs, and increases economic activity.
It makes people wealthy.
You are aware that the Trans Texas Corridor is of a greater magnitude than the remaining portion of that NAFTA super highway, right? And that it’s to be a toll road? Try preaching your message to rural Texas communities and hear the response. Their lives are being ripped apart by this, but you go ahead and play cheerleader.
Probably closer to the real number of illegals.
What your numbers don't show is the quality and wages of those jobs. I think that's what most people have a problem with especially, now that the economy has down turned and prices have sky rocketed. Since we're paying more for imports now (due to the falling $) a NAFTA HW bringing in said imports, is not looked upon favorably.
Probably closer to the real number of illegals.
What your numbers don't show is the quality and wages of those jobs. I think that's what most people have a problem with especially, now that the economy has down turned and prices have sky rocketed. Since we're paying more for imports now (due to the falling $) a NAFTA HW bringing in said imports, is not looked upon favorably.
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